Label your face group

Receive more personalised creations. For example, a movie that contains photos of you.

Receive personalised search. You can search 'Me' to find photos of yourself easily.

Allow your contacts to receive suggestions to share with you. When your contacts take photos of you, they'll receive a suggestion to share with you any photos that they have of you.

Note: This feature is not available in all countries. If it is available in your country, turn on the feature to use it.

Confirm your face group and allow your contacts to receive suggestions to share photos with you

If you select your 'Me' face label, you allow the Google Photos app on your contacts' devices to recognise your face. Then, Google Photos can send them suggestions to share with you any photos that they have of you.

Things you should know

If you label your 'Me' face group and let your contacts recognise your face in photos:

You allow your contacts to receive suggestions to send you photos of you, but you won’t be publicly tagged in photos. Public tagging is not available in Google Photos.

Your contacts may receive a suggestion to share, but they can choose whether or not they want to share with you.

Change or remove the 'Me' face label

If you select the wrong face, you can change the 'Me' face label to the correct face. You can also remove your face group, but you’ll get fewer personalised creations and your contacts won’t be able to automatically recognise your face in photos.

On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app .

Tap Menu Settings Group similar faces.

Tap Face labelled as me.

Select a face to confirm the correct face group, or tap RemoveRemove label.

Stop allowing contacts to receive suggestions to share photos with you

Your contacts won’t be able to receive suggestions to share photos of you with you, but you’ll still receive personalised movies and animations.